Where does Battelle Memorial Institute rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Battelle Memorial Institute ranks #483 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Battelle Memorial Institute hold?

Battelle Memorial Institute holds 917 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 242 technology areas.

What is Battelle Memorial Institute's Innovation Score?

Battelle Memorial Institute has an Innovation Score of 65.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Battelle Memorial Institute's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Battelle Memorial Institute's recent grant velocity is +21% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Battelle Memorial Institute's patents?

Battelle Memorial Institute's patents average 17.9 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Battelle Memorial Institute patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Battelle Memorial Institute

Q: What technology areas does Battelle Memorial Institute focus on?

Battelle Memorial Institute's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 152 patents. Grants appear in 242 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 917 granted patents across 242 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Battelle ranks #483 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 917 patents across 242 technology areas.

#483
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.8/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R483 · US Corporation #483 · 917 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 917 grants
TOP-DECILE #483/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baidu Online…
CPC-BROAD Y02E · 242 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baidu Online Network Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. (±1 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eaton Intelligent… · near

66
Siemens Healthcare · near

66
Battelle Memorial… · this assignee

66
Qingdao Haier… · near

66
University of… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Battelle's Innovation Score is 65.8/100 (top 1% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

How Battelle's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Battelle Memorial Institute received 463 grants versus 383 in 2015–2019 (+21% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 101 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 58. Lead class Y02E accounts for 16.6% of the portfolio across 242 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Zeon Corporation (#479) and NSK Ltd. (#487).

Battelle's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Battelle Memorial Institute moved from 286 to 278 grants (0.97x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,263. See the growth leaderboard.

Zeon

926
Eaton

924
Baidu USA

922
THE University OF…

920
Battelle Memorial… ◀

917
Baidu Online Netw…

916
KT

914
Maxell

914
NSK

914

What this shows Battelle holds 917 patents at rank #483, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Battelle

By rank, the assignees closest to #483 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Battelle's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Battelle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co., Ltd. 66 University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education 66 Siemens Healthcare Limited 66 Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Tobii AB 17.9 avg Thru Tubing Solutions, Inc. 17.9 avg Saint-gobain Isover 17.9 avg Rakuten Symphony, Inc. 17.9 avg

Battelle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Battelle Memorial Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	65	7.1%
2016	78	8.5%
2017	58	6.3%
2018	81	8.8%
2019	101	11.0%
2020	101	11.0%
2021	84	9.2%
2022	85	9.3%
2023	97	10.6%
2024	96	10.5%
2025partial year	71	7.7%

Which technologies does Battelle Memorial Institute patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 152

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 142

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 106

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 77

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 70

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 64

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 56

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 51

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 51

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 50

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 50

B01D - Separation 50

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 48

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 46

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 43

Top 15 of 242 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#483

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

65.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Battelle Memorial Institute's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Battelle Memorial Institute's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 16.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #483 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Battelle Memorial Institute against Zeon Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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